Frontier lab

OpenAI

/openai · San Francisco, USA · est. 2015

Key facts

  • OpenAI is a frontier lab headquartered in San Francisco, USA, founded 2015.
  • Exposes an OpenAI-compatible API, so existing OpenAI SDK code can target it by changing the base URL.
  • Blended reference price is $6.25 per 1M tokens (in $2.50 / out $10.00).
  • Reference latency 480 ms TTFT at 90 tok/s throughput, with 99.8% reference uptime.
  • Editorial reputation index 91/100 from 1420 weighted signals; 90-day trend stable.

Specification

Category
Frontier lab
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA
Founded
2015
Model access
Proprietary
Flagship / served
GPT-4o / o-series
Reference open model
OpenAI-compatible API
Yes
Blended $/1M
$6.25 medium

Strengths & trade-offs

Strength

Frontier model quality and the de-facto API standard the whole ecosystem mimics.

Trade-off

Premium pricing and no access to open-weight models.


Profile reviewed 2026-07-10. Confidence for this listing:high — Figure confirmed against the provider's public pricing/docs page on the last_reviewed date.Not affiliated with OpenAI. ← Back to directory